Seahorse is a Gnome front end for GnuPG – the Gnu Privacy Guard program. Its goal is to provide an easy to use Key Management Tool, along with an easy to use interface for encryption operations.
It is a tool for secure communications and data storage. Data encryption and digital signature creation can easily be performed through a GUI and Key Management operations can easily be carried out through an intuitive interface.
Additionally, Seahorse includes a Gedit plugin, can handle files using Nautilus, an applet for managing stuff put in the clipboard and an agent for storing private passphrases, as well as a GnuPG and OpenSSH key manager.
Seahorse is integrated into the GNOME Desktop Environment.
Features include:
- Encrypt/decrypt/sign files and text.
- Manage your keys and keyring.
- Synchronize your keys and your keyring with key servers.
- Sign keys and publish.
- Cache your passphrase so you don’t have to keep typing it.
- Backup your keys and keyring.
- Add an image in any GDK supported format as a OpenGPG photo ID.
- Create SSH keys, configure them, cache them.
- Internationalization support – there are translations for Czech, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.
Website: wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Seahorse
Support: Wiki, GitLab
Developer: Jacob Perkins, Jose Carlos, Garcia Sogo, Jean Schurger, Stef Walter, Adam Schreiber
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Seahorse is written in Vala. Learn Vala with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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